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The New Hampshire Gazette
Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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Letter from James Purviance in Halifax dated April 9, 1795, corrects a local newspaper report that HMS Thistle captured the Baltimore ship Pomona laden with wine, brandy, and £25,000 disguised as paints. Actually, the ship was in ballast, money in boxes as crowns, and only five casks of paints from Fenwick, Mason & Co.
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"The Halifax paper of the 3d instant, informs, that his Majesty's ship Thistle had arrived from a cruise, bringing with her the ship Pomona of Baltimore, from Bourdeaux, laden with wine, brandy, &c. &c. and £25,000 sterling, in casks, under the name of paints, which probably may be copied into the United States papers, not one word, of which is true—the ship being in ballast, your money as well as that belonging to Cunningham Nebit and Co. being in boxes and bags under the name of Crowns, and only the five casks, as before mentioned, shipped by Fenwick, Mason, and Co. and called paints, of which please inform Mr. Mason, as also, that I shall not put in a claim for them, unless I claim them as taken within the United States."
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Halifax
Event Date
9th Of April, 1795
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ship pomona in ballast with money in boxes and bags under name of crowns; only five casks of paints shipped by fenwick, mason, and co.; no claim unless taken within united states.
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Halifax paper of 3d instant reports HMS Thistle arrived with captured ship Pomona of Baltimore from Bourdeaux, laden with wine, brandy, and £25,000 sterling in casks as paints. Correction: report untrue; ship in ballast, money belonging to recipients and Cunningham Nebit and Co. in boxes and bags as Crowns, only five casks of paints as mentioned.